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Feoffee

transferee an estate in fee simple. The recipient of a fief. Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 634.

condition of feudal service the tenant of a feud or fief

not only to these, but to whatever was not a fief or feud.

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rectory or vicarage: all church preferments except bishoprics; also a fief in the feudal system. See s. 13(1) of the (English)

An estate held of a superior on condition of military service a fee a feud See under Benefice n 2

feud or right in land to to invest with a fief or fee to invest any one with a freehold estate

cestui que use [Anglo-French, the person for whose use (a fief is granted)] : the beneficiary of a use

Of or pertaining to feuds fiefs or fees as feudal rights or services feudal tenures

A knight who carried a banner who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor and who

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